The planarian HOM/HOX homeobox genes (Plox) expressed along the anteroposterior axis

Developmental Biology

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 456-468

  Orii, Hidefumi ^a   Kato, Kentaro ^a   Umesono, Yoshihiko ^a,b   Sakurai, Takashige ^c   Agata, Kiyokazu ^a   Watanabe, Kenji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HYOGO   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Fukushima Biomed Inst Environ N   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dugesia japonica; Flatworm; Homeobox; Pattern formation; Regeneration

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; EMBRYO PATTERN FORMATION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SEQUENCE; HOMEOBOX; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGENERATION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TURBELLARIA;

DUGESIA JAPONICA;

EID: 0033564127     PISSN: 00121606     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/dbio.1999.9275     Document Type: Article

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